CENTRALE FOTOGRAFIA - IV edition
“nella propria stanza”
Fano
8-9-10 June 2012
From 8 to 10 June 2012 Centrale Fotografia, the annual festival dedicated to
photography and contemporary art, returns to Fano for its IV edition. The event aims to provide an overview on Italian photography by presenting artists talks, exhibitions, conferences, film screenings, collateral events, meetings and occasions to reflect upon the photographic mean.
It is organized by Associazione Culturale Centrale Fotografia, in collaboration with Assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Fano, Assemblea Legislativa delle Marche, it is supported by Studio d’architettura Tomassini, Caffè Centrale, Omnia Comunicazione, Hotel Orfeo and Ristorante Pizzeria Florida.
Curated by Luca Panaro and Marcello Sparaventi, the festival focuses this year on the topic: “on its own room”. The invited artists will investigate the connections between photography and contemporary life, by exploring the possibilities of extending the vision of the camera outside of their own domestic environment, but without getting out of it. With few means at disposal in their room, a table, their own body, some common objects, they will be able to create images that reveal a universal language and symbols of contemporary life.
The two established artists Alessandra Spranzi and Paolo Ventura, this year special guests, will introduce to the public their point of view on the topic “on its own room” by presenting their interesting current artistic research.
At the core of the program, the show Carousel, curated by Luca Panaro, and held in the ancient building of the Rocca Malatestiana. The exhibition takes its title from 1961 Kodak slide projectors. The works of four artists Nadia Groff, Selene Lazzarini, Chiara Proserpio and Katia Rigali, will interact between the old technology of the projector and a new approach to crate images on the festival topic.
Among the other events, the film show La fotografia al cinema, the show Immagini, musica, parole. Diatape e video1992-2002, dedicated to photography theorist Roberto Signorini (Milan 1947-2009), and Photography and performance, conference by Luca Panaro. The program includes also the prize-giving of Vist’Amare / immagini del mare Adriatico, national competition on photographic image dedicated to Pier Lorenzo Tomassini and the Space HF distribution book shop, with a selection of art and photography editorial proposals.
© Alessandra Spranzi, Cose che accadono #43, 2005-2009 (courtesy Nicoletta Rusconi)